Congratulations to Kate Hartshorn ’23, who will travel to Rwanda this summer after being accepted into the National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates (NSF REU) program through the University of Southern California Los Angeles. Originally from Denver, Colorado, Hartshorn will graduate this spring with a B.S. in Environmental Science and Policy and a minor
I’m a rising senior double majoring in Biological Sciences and Spanish. Most importantly, I have been a “Swamp Monster” since spring semester of my sophomore year. Being a Swamp Monster means I, along with other undergraduates, work alongside Chapman faculty Dr. Jason Keller and Dr. Cassandra Medvedeff Zalman conducting research in wetland ecology. It also
What better way to get hands-on policy experience than to go to our nation’s capital and lobby members of Congress for a proposed carbon fee and dividend legislation! Thanks to Student Government Association funding, Citizens’ Climate Lobby , and support from Schmid College faculty and staff, five Chapman students were able to go to Washington
Gage Kizzar, a high school student from Orange High School, was selected in 2015 as a Simon STEM Scholar. As part of the partnership between Chapman University, The Simon Foundations and Orange High School, Kizzar has worked with faculty members of Schmid College of Science and Technology during Fall 2015, Spring 2016 and Fall 2016
Schmid College did not have to wait long for its young Environmental Science and Policy program to sprout an impressive alumna. Madison Hoffacker ’13, a recent graduate with a grass-roots foundation in the program, co-authored and published a paper in Nature Climate Change. Hoffacker was one of the first four students to officially declare a
World Water Day was first established in 1993 by the United Nations General Assembly. Designating March 22 of every year to water, this year’s theme for World Water day is ‘Water and Sustainable Development,’ celebrating how water is linked to all areas of our lives. Particularly in the southern California region water has
March 18 2015, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. Chapman University, Argyros Forum Student Ballroom, AF 119A Our global society faces a number of challenges including adapting to climate change, assuring the availability of freshwater, and managing our energy resources wisely, all of which require a robust understanding of the
A leading authority in climate change, MIT Professor Kerry Emanuel, PhD, will speak in the Irvine Lecture Hall the evening of Friday, April 4th – and you’re invited! This exciting, thought-provoking event is sponsored by the MIT Club of Southern California, Schmid College School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, CEESMO and Wells for Wellbeing. EVENT DETAILS 5:30
Over winter break, Chapman professor Hesham El-Askary traveled to the epicenter of political change to talk about another kind of change on everyone’s mind: climate change. Dr. El-Askary, associate professor Schmid College of Science and Technology and member of the Center of Excellence in Earth Systems Modeling & Observations , recently traveled to The American University in
In 1983, Bill Cooper, professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Irvine, first encountered- and was mesmerized by- the butterflies of Iguazú Falls. Since then, he has taken over 15,000 pictures and videos of these butterflies, photographically preserving them for future generations. This stunning show will be on display February 7, 2014 through March 2014